If I don't get straight haste I don't reach 14876 breakpoint, which I thought was pretty important. I thought it was acceptable to go for that haste point

A haste breakpoint is when a sudden rise in DPS occurs due to an additional tick of a DoT appearing after a specific value of haste (a breakpoint). The most notable one for Shadow in Patch 5.0 is 8085, which should only become a concern once you are in at least ~495 item level. Generally, below this item level you want to prioritize Intellect whenever possible, while picking up socket bonuses when you can - and reforging to maintain hit cap and then maximize haste.

If I don't get straight haste I don't reach 14876 breakpoint, which I thought was pretty important. I thought it was acceptable to go for that haste point

That's where I was inferring it from.

It could be my fault then for implying a gain that is much larger than what is found in practice. You can ditch some socket bonuses sometimes, especcially when they are putting you over a breakpoint - but the bonuses are never so dramatic that it's worth ignoring all socket bonuses all the time - and especcially int sockets are almost never worth ignoring for haste gems. We aren't fury warriors / fire mages - we can't just stack a secondary to win - int is incredibly good for us.

If I don't get straight haste I don't reach 14876 breakpoint, which I thought was pretty important. I thought it was acceptable to go for that haste point

Well your gear is essentially dog, in terms of so many pieces of it having crit (10, whereas, for the sake of comparison, I only have 4), and a lot of them not having haste either (9, asides UVLS, whereas I only got 1, and even that is only 'cause there's only 1 haste ring in the entirety of ToT). If you'd gem for socket bonuses, you'd only do it for Head, Chest, Legs, and maybe Boots, 'cause no other socket bonus you have is worth going for anyways. Not gemming pure haste for a 60 int socket bonus is generally not worth it, until you reach the 50% haste cap. Just do whatever it is to your liking. Going either way wont make much of a difference, really.

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When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years

Edit: my legs have the int/crit embroider, I just didn't logoff with it on.

The only thing I see is a few stam/int in blue sockets that you want to match for the bonuses. Stam is useless, you're better off using an Energized (Haste/Spirit) cut, and a few pure int gems in red sockets instead of Reckless (Haste/Int), you're only about 1k haste off +3 ticks on DP/SWP by default by hitting 14846 haste so any haste you can add on at this point do it.

The only thing I see is a few stam/int in blue sockets that you want to match for the bonuses. Stam is useless, you're better off using an Energized (Haste/Spirit) cut, and a few pure int gems in red sockets instead of Reckless (Haste/Int), you're only about 1k haste off +3 ticks on DP/SWP by default by hitting 14846 haste so any haste you can add on at this point do it.

You're incorrect on the stam being useless. Seeing as he's already at 15.21 and reforging entirely out of spirit/hit putting spirit on a gem will do nothing,

*correction there is a few spots he could reforge better, I'm assuming these are dual use pieces also used on healing

where as stam at least has some survivability uses. Especially seeing as he's progressiong Heroic Lei-shen where any static shock during transition risks one shotting you anyways.
The rest of the gemming is a bit funky as well. Gemming straight int in red and straight haste in yellow/prismatic. Should be one or the other. In his case should probably be gemming haste but honoring socket bonus. Basically everything but blue bonus will be worth it, and even those are assuming they have more 80 int to be gained from matching, (helm, chest, legs)

because sometimes, especially if you do not kill a boss on the first try, UVLS is just useless, proccing in movement phases and when nothing is up.

You should be able to apply at least Shadow Word: Pain while UVLS is up - even if you dont have time to stop and VT. If you aren't feeling like you are making use of the procs though, then try out heroic Cha'Ye's - even once upgraded it's barely an upgraded to UVLS - but that assumes you are actually making use of the UVLS proc.

Sorry, if my question was already answered many times, but i couldn't find the answer here.
If you cast the Dots before the previous Dots fall off, are the stats snapshoted from the new cast (with trinkets or other proccs) or are the dots refreshed and they maintain the stats from the first cast? So should I refresh the dots only before the fall off or should I cast them whenever i have some major procc?

Sorry, if my question was already answered many times, but i couldn't find the answer here.
If you cast the Dots before the previous Dots fall off, are the stats snapshoted from the new cast (with trinkets or other proccs) or are the dots refreshed and they maintain the stats from the first cast? So should I refresh the dots only before the fall off or should I cast them whenever i have some major procc?

They refresh on cast, so refresh them on proc. You can get an addon called AffDots that will help with knowing when to recast and when not to.

UVLS dot applications (particularly Pain) takes top priority over all the above though, if you are using UVLS+ToT set bonus.

You wrote it kind of weird, if MB were higher than DP - then you would MB at 3 orbs if you could and ignore DP: that's not right. But I get what you mean The key with everything is Orb Generators - the point of which is to build up DP's - but that's done through DoTs: so there is quite a bit of synergy / conflicting priorities involved here obviously.